Oaktree Speciality Lending: 10% Yielder With A De-Risked Profile

Roberts Berzins, CFA
10.21K Followers

Summary

  • Oaktree Specialty Lending is one of the largest BDCs with strong fundamentals across the board carrying an exposure to public bonds, which is uncommon in the BDC space.
  • Recently, OCSL has improved its portfolio and de-risked balance sheet, while keeping net investment income component stable.
  • In this article I review my investment thesis that I issued back in August, 2023 and provide several reasons why I still consider OCSL a buy.

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Back in August last year, I wrote an article on Oaktree Specialty Lending (NASDAQ:OCSL), which is one of the largest BDCs in the world with a market cap of ~ $1.7 billion.

My thesis back then was purely

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Roberts Berzins has over a decade of experience in the financial management helping top-tier corporates shape their financial strategies and execute large-scale financings. He has also made significant efforts to institutionalize REIT framework in Latvia to boost the liquidity of pan-Baltic capital markets. Other policy-level work includes the development of national SOE financing guidelines and framework for channeling private capital into affordable housing stock. Roberts is a CFA Charterholder, ESG investing certificate holder, has had an internship in Chicago board of trade (albeit, being resident and living in Latvia), and is actively involved in "thought-leadership" activities to support the development of pan-Baltic capital markets.

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